Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Fri Jul 18 14:59:22 UTC 2008
On Jul 18, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I look at at this way: a unix-like operating system is the part that
> makes everything look like a file and applications that are portable
> across them only need an API of creat(), open(), read(), write(), and
> ioctl()
API = UNIX-like C library? On GNU+Linux, GNU libc, right? Linux per
se offers no such APIs.
>> Nothing like "many small programs, each doing a single simple task
>> very well, that can be combined through pipes and a powerful shell
>> programming language" would be part of the UNIX philosophy, because,
>> well, these small programs wouldn't be part of UNIX per this narrow
>> definition.
> That's a good idea under any OS, not particularly unique to unix.
Heh. Discarding part of a statement to make it fit others isn't very
nice :-) Good ideas are present in any OS, so... whatever conclusion
you might want to get to :-)
> The c library isn't unique to unix by design.
I don't understand what you're trying to communicate here, there are
several different possible interpretations. Please expand or use
different words?
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